Objections Over Report On Meridian JC

After it was reported on Thursday (April 21) that the Ministry Of Education (MOE) would be merging 8 junior Colleges into 4, you would expect students and alumni of the affected schools to be rather upset that their schools will be losing their history and in the cases of 4 of them, their physical campuses.

Thus, it came as a surprise when readers read this post on Today’s Facebook page on the schools’ reactions to the mergers:

Seriously? Students from Meridian Junior College cheered when the news of their merger with Tampines Junior College was revealed? That seems strange — although Meridian JC won’t be losing their campus, it sounded strange that they would be so happy over potentially mixing their school identity with Tampines JC, which has a longer history.

Why So Happy?

A few netizens were a little shocked at the news, and took to Facebook to question the reaction.

This promptedthe school principal to tell the students to take the matter seriously. Hearing this anecdotal evidence, it’s highly possible that the principal was actually just addressing that particular student, but hadn’t wanted to single him out.

Triggered

After that, some netizens slammed Today for the inaccuracy, saying it had put the school and its students in a negative light: